Labour agreements correspondence and minutes
Dear Department of Immigration and Border Protection,
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
Can you please provide:
-any correspondence between the office of the Workplace Relations Minister and the Department, and
-any minutes of meeting attended by the Workplace Relations Minister,
concerning the three largest labour agreements (by number of visas approved) that came into effect between 1 January 2012 and 1 October 2013.
I request that any fees that may arise as part of this request be waived, as the information well help to assess the veracity of claims made by the alternative prime minister.
Yours faithfully,
Jackson Gothe-Snape
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Dear Mr Gothe-Snape
I refer to your FOI request received on 8 August 2017, seeking access to
the following:
Any correspondence between the office of the Workplace Relations Minister
and the Department, and any minutes of meeting attended by the Workplace
Relations Minister, concerning the three largest labour agreements (by
number of visas approved) that came into effect between 1 January 2012 and
1 October 2013.
The Department has made a decision on this request. Please see attached
the signed decision letter and decision record.
This request has now been closed.
Yours sincerely
FOI Officer
Freedom of Information Section | Department of Immigration and Border
Protection
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